Re: [XHR] Need to define the behavior when the Window the XHR is created from does not have an associated document from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-12-14 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:54:59 +0100
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: Jungkee Song <jungkee.song@samsung.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <CADnb78hS02xh_zAihyS_KEnEQQDqJQYWXs0GGtA1rHu026crtg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> But note that you can get the same effect by just navigating the a browsing
> context, then calling a function that was defined in the no-longer-active
> document, without worrying about browsers that have buggy open()
> implementations.

The specification deals with that by having xhr.open() throw. I
suppose the same would happen for the other case, since the associated
Document object is no longer active.

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